Audi S3.
 

The 300 BHP TFSI ?

Anyone got one / tried one out?

A worthy successor if thinking about moving on from Scooby Ownership?

a great car? no doubt!

the same noise / rarity / cool/ iconic factor?

never!

Be prepared for the experts to tell you how boring and dull it is :thumb:.

i love the S3 , they do blend in abit but i quite like that on certain cars

Oh dear oh dear

He should go the whole hog and start dressing up in the wives frock on weekends

lol i find my hawk twin scroll boring my golf tfsi more exciting cant wait to get s3 upgrades on mine

2wd will always be more exciting you have that loss of traction to deal with

An M135i is far more fun ;-)

A guy at work has an RS3 and it sounds pretty good but no idea what it goes like.

Audi's are nice there are just to clinical for me. unless you are in RS4/6 territory and then its just crushing amounts of power.

I bought myself one a few months ago, it's a fun little car, grips well, accelerates well, brakes well and I have to say, is much better than the older generation S3's.

Performance wise (with DSG) they are pretty much on a par with the outgoing RS3 due to the new car shedding a load of weight, the turbo is very responsive, acceleration from 2000 upwards with little to no lag at all. Fuel economy is impressive, it's easy enough to average 35mpg over the whole tank, and up to low 40's on a run. Tax/insurance, cheap as chips, it scores pretty well here too.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...ps51996ad3.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...ps6e3e2eb9.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...psf82aa103.jpg

Performance wise timed with a vbox standard...

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...ps51e9ab1d.png

After a tuning box fitted...

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...psepwamhy8.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...ps5tgagrq8.jpg

1/4m time, 12.00 dead....

http://www.crailraceway.co.uk/showco...ate=2014-09-14

With a bit more running in and some cooler weather, the car will hit 11.9, all that's on it is a £400 piggyback tuning box. (All that is currently available)

The next RS3 should be a hoot based on these figures but is probably a good 9 months away before release yet.

Okay, with Audi's very safe haldex 4wd, it's never going to be a fantastic track car, there is still some under steer apparent when pushing hard, but for day to day, British roads, in all weather conditions, they are great little cars. I'll probably keep for another 6 months or so and look at getting back into another fast saloon around then, but my score out of 10 would be 8.5 :thumb:

Impressive figures and lovely looking car :thumb:

I've got a 3 door with DSG on order for 1st of March complete with the fancy seats as well.
Was surprised how different it was to the previous model S3 which I'd had a few years back. Much more grown up but felt lighter and that I would find the DSG better than a manual gearbox.
Will be going down the tuning box route myself as well, - which model did you go for Leo RS ?

Richard

Impressive numbers but I HATE the double duel exit exhausts. Looks like a young posh boys car with those exhausts. 2 nice single exits would have looked a lot better IMO.

Great times but they are exclusively down to the DSG box, what a wonderful piece of tech these flappy paddle boxes are :cool:

The wife always tells me I am too young to get an Audi.. Old man's car!

I am currently driving a courtesy posh van; a Caravelle Executive. Now I know it will be set up differently but the DSG box it total and utter turds.
It's worse than bad full autos I've used; hesitates, jerks, changes at the wrong times (e.g changes up when slowly going up a 25% hill). It's driving me nuts.

Sorry but the BM sport auto is light years ahead.

A dsg will be programmed to what car it is in.

It was better in the CC (Passat coupe) we had but still pretty poor.

Thanks to our troublesome van, I think I've now driven almost all models of VW now.

The Up had an auto box so horrific, I genuinely thought it was broken; but that's not DSG.

Does it stand for Decidedly Shoddy Gearchanges?

Try a rs4/6/3 with dsg then give your opinion.

What the rather disappointing RS4 (after the great B7)? The two tonne RS6? Or the understeer king that is the RS3?

Nope.

The new S3 appears to be a major step forwards for Audis performance division but they still make more duffers than good cars.

Anyway it's the same principle and in the vehicles I've driven, it's cr4p.

And yes it's the Daily Fail but they appear to be a tad problematic too…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ght-fuses.html

I forgot, nothing's better than your queer 1M. Proper snob you are :lol1:

Anyway, I'm not talking riddles with you, so just carry on trying to compare everything to your car (just like when you had the 335d) :thumb:

The lads in the shop call it Definetly Sh*t Gearbox. :D

Glad I'm not alone - Drove a new (14plate) Golf Gti with one....still no better IMO.

I still don't get automated transmissions in "driver's cars" - meh, maybe I'm too old school to be part of the playstation generation.

That's me that is :norty:

Those figures look mental

Did I see a 0-60 time of 3.8 seconds, that's pretty quick

So how much more bhp is that. ??

Pfft...... Hodgys 2l pinto would do that ....:rolleyes:


Whilst he's smoking his pipe.

Can you post a video up of the faster run Mitchy/Leo.

360 I think; which isn't a vast amount but makes the numbers even more impressive.

Whatever I think of the S3 (actually quite like it) that is bar steward quick.

But I still think an M135i is more fun and JB4 gets you 360bhp. More tuning sees 400. TBH it's got plenty as standard (I've had a few waa hey moments already!) but get it right and it's SO rewarding.

I'm only saying this as an alternative suggestion.

Oh and the standard S3 hatch looks way better than the saloon or bigger hatch IMO.